Protected areas are areas with characteristic or remarkable landscapes*, including those that are the result of the harmonious coexistence of man and nature. They are habitats of threatened, rare or vulnerable plant and animal species and communities.

Protected areas are managed to:
- Preservation of landscape components
- Conservation, maintenance or restoration of habitat conditions that meet the ecological requirements of the species and communities under protection
- Providing opportunities for research, education and environmental monitoring
- Providing opportunities for tourism and spiritual enrichment

Activities that contradict the requirements for the protection of the specific sites subject to protection are prohibited in the protected areas.

Note: According to the Biodiversity Act, a landscape is an area whose specific appearance and elements have arisen as a result of the actions and interactions of natural and/or human factors, e.g. rivers and their banks, natural marshes, lakes, waterlogged meadows and other wetlands, caves and dunes, saddles, field sinuosities, field shelterbelts, meadows and pastures, floodplain river terraces and riparian vegetation, etc.